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How Do You Find The Mac Address For A Konica Minolta Printer

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KONICA MINOLTA 1690MF

Type 'arp -a' (without quotation marks) at the command prompt, then press 'Enter.' Scroll down the list until you see your printer's IP address. Your printer's MAC address is listed next to its IP address. An example of a MAC address format is '00-1d-7e-e8-d7-27.'

  1. This is called the Media Access Control (MAC) address. When installing the printer on a network, make sure you select the printer with the correct MAC address. If the printer has a factory-installed internal print server, the MAC address is a series of letters and numbers located on the MAC address sheet that came with your printer. The MAC address appears in the following format: 00:04:12:34:56:78.
  2. Before you begin, you will need to know your computer's operating system. To find this information, click the Apple menu, then About this Mac. Setting up a new printer is a three-step process: download the driver, install it, then configure the printer.


Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Printing with CUPS
  3. HOW TO SCAN: SANE and the Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF

Support of the 1690MF under Ubuntu

The 1690MF is marginally supported out of the box on Ubuntu. However, with a little tweaking, the Konica-Minolta 1690MF can be made to work exceptionally well on Ubuntu. And once you have this operational on a Ubuntu box, its fairly easy to share all of the units features with other computers on your network.

About this tutorial

This tutorial will walk you through setting up printing and scanning on a Ubuntu 11.10 box, and then help you share those services on your local network, making it available to many more clients than could otherwise support this unit.

Assumptions made in this tutorial

We make the following assumptions in this tutorial (you will need to adjust these to fit your situation)

  • This set up assumes that we are on a small home or office network and are behind a firewall.
  • Our LAN is an IP4 network on subnet 192.168.0.0/24 (192.168.0.0 - 192.168.0.255)
  • Our Ubuntu box is 192.168.0.23
  • Our Konica-Minolta Magicolor 1690MF is at 192.168.0.15

Step 1: Add the drivers to your system

We need to install the 'foo2zjs' package to get the drivers we need. From a terminal, run the command:

This will install all of the printer drivers we need to print in both color or black and white. Note: Their are two drivers that work for our printer, but both have slight issues that you need to be aware of. The 1690MF driver prints great in black and white, but it does not print in color. The 2530 DL driver prints in color really well, but always prints composite black instead of using the black toner. To deal with this, we will simply install the printer twice, and select the B&W or Color printer as needed for your print job.

Step 2: Add the printer as a black and white printer

1. Open your browser to the CUPS admin page (http://localhost:631/admin/).

2. From the Admin page, click on 'add a printer' button. You will need to log-in using the user name and password you use to log in to the machine.

3. Select the 'KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF' from either the local printers list (if attached by USB) or from the discovered printers list (network) and click 'Continue'

4. You should now have a form up with a couple of options. Fill out the form using the following values:

And click 'Continue'

NOTE: If you want to share this printer with other computers on your network, check the box that says 'Share this printer' before clicking continue.

5. Under 'Make' select 'KONICA MINOLTA' and click 'Continue'

6. Select the 'KONICA MINOLTA Magicolor 1690MF foomatic/lavafoo' driver and click 'add printer'

7. Print a test page. If the test page does not print, recheck these steps.

Step 3: Add the printer as a color printer

1. Open your browser to the CUPS admin page (http://localhost:631/admin/).

2. Click on 'add a printer' button. If you are not already logged in you will need to log-in using the user name and password you use to log in to the machine.

3. Select the 'KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 1690MF' from either the local printers list (if attached by USB) or from the discovered printers list (network) and click 'Continue'

4. You should now have a form up with a couple of options. Fill out the form using the following values:

And click 'Continue'

NOTE: If you want to share this printer with other computers on your network, check the box that says 'Share this printer' before clicking 'Continue'.

5. Under 'Make' select 'KONICA MINOLTA' and click 'Continue'

6. Select the 'KONICA MINOLTA magicolor 2530 DL Foomatic/foo2lava' driver and click 'add printer'

7. Print a test page. If the test page does not print, recheck these steps.

Step 4: Add the printer on Client machines (Linux and MAC)

1. Your shared printer should be automagically picked up by linux and mac computers on your local network. If they are not, then check to make sure CUPS is showing printers shared by other systems. To do that on Linux, click:

2. From the window that opens up, you need to open up the Server Setting dialog box by clicking:

3. Check the box that says 'Show printers shared by other systems' and then click on 'Save'. Within a minute you should see your printers.

Step 5: Add the printer on Client machines (Windows and MAC)

It is generally best to use the drivers that shipped with the 1690MF for MAC and Windows clients. It is possible to set this printer up for sharing with SAMBA, but that is beyond the scope of this document.

Step 1: Ensure that you have at least version 1.0.22 of sane installed

sane 1.0.22 is installed by default on ubuntu 11.10 desktops, but we still need to check and make sure we have it, and that we have the correct version. To do that, run this command from a terminal:

You should see something like this as a result:

Mac

(hint: it should already be installed on Ubuntu 11.10 and higher. If it reads version 1.0.21, you do not have the magicolor back end, and need to upgrade to a newer version of ubuntu).

If sane is not installed (you would have gotten a command not found error), then you can install it using the following command

This will also install the xsane front end.

Step 2: Enable the Magicolor back end

Ip Address

1. Edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by running the following command:

How Do You Find The Mac Address For A Konica Minolta Printers

2. Within that file, change the line that reads

to read

3. Save the file and close gedit. Note: if the magicolor line does not have a hash ('#'), you do not need to edit anything and can just close gedit.

Step 3: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the network scanner

While sane will attempt to autodetect the scanner on the network, you will most likely need to specify the IP address of the scanner.

Mac Address Vendor Lookup

NOTE: If you are connecting via usb, and not the network, skip to step 4. You usually do not need to connect both ways.

1. open a terminal and run the command:

How Do You Find The Mac Address For A Konica Minolta Printer Setup

2. After the line that reads

You need to add a line with the word 'net' and IP address of your Magicolor 1690MF scanner. That line should look like this:

(make sure to change the address to match that of your scanner)

3. Now that you have added the IP address of your scanner, save the file and close gedit.

How Do You Find The Mac Address For A Konica Minolta Printer Software

Step 4: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the USB scanner

1. With the 1690MF plugged into your computer via a USB cable, run the command:

the output of that command will look something like this:

You can ignore everything that starts with a hash tag, but the important part is this line:

Driver

2. We need to add those two values to the Magicolor back end. To do that, fire up gedit as root using this command:

3. Find the line that reads:

and after it we need to add a line with the word 'usb' followed by the vendor number and the product number we got with the scanimage -L command. That line should look like this:

4. After you have added that line, save the file and close gedit.

Step 5: Test your new scanner

1. open a terminal window and run the command

You should now have a working interface to your Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF.

NOTE: Sometime you will need to reboot the machine in order to get sane working properly with the magicolor backend. It doesn't happen all of the time, but knowing this can save a lot of time and headaches.

sane.d tutorial

If you need to either find out what the current IP network address of your printer is, or to manually change it to suit your requirements. Luckily this very simple process can be achieved by following the instructions below.

Using the bizhub Control Panel –

At photocopier control panel select:

Menu Button

Mac Address Lookup

Utility ButtonDevice Information, where you will see the IPv4 IP network address.

How
Address

(hint: it should already be installed on Ubuntu 11.10 and higher. If it reads version 1.0.21, you do not have the magicolor back end, and need to upgrade to a newer version of ubuntu).

If sane is not installed (you would have gotten a command not found error), then you can install it using the following command

This will also install the xsane front end.

Step 2: Enable the Magicolor back end

Ip Address

1. Edit the file /etc/sane.d/dll.conf by running the following command:

How Do You Find The Mac Address For A Konica Minolta Printers

2. Within that file, change the line that reads

to read

3. Save the file and close gedit. Note: if the magicolor line does not have a hash ('#'), you do not need to edit anything and can just close gedit.

Step 3: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the network scanner

While sane will attempt to autodetect the scanner on the network, you will most likely need to specify the IP address of the scanner.

Mac Address Vendor Lookup

NOTE: If you are connecting via usb, and not the network, skip to step 4. You usually do not need to connect both ways.

1. open a terminal and run the command:

How Do You Find The Mac Address For A Konica Minolta Printer Setup

2. After the line that reads

You need to add a line with the word 'net' and IP address of your Magicolor 1690MF scanner. That line should look like this:

(make sure to change the address to match that of your scanner)

3. Now that you have added the IP address of your scanner, save the file and close gedit.

How Do You Find The Mac Address For A Konica Minolta Printer Software

Step 4: Tell the Magicolor back end where to find the USB scanner

1. With the 1690MF plugged into your computer via a USB cable, run the command:

the output of that command will look something like this:

You can ignore everything that starts with a hash tag, but the important part is this line:

2. We need to add those two values to the Magicolor back end. To do that, fire up gedit as root using this command:

3. Find the line that reads:

and after it we need to add a line with the word 'usb' followed by the vendor number and the product number we got with the scanimage -L command. That line should look like this:

4. After you have added that line, save the file and close gedit.

Step 5: Test your new scanner

1. open a terminal window and run the command

You should now have a working interface to your Konica Minolta Magicolor 1690MF.

NOTE: Sometime you will need to reboot the machine in order to get sane working properly with the magicolor backend. It doesn't happen all of the time, but knowing this can save a lot of time and headaches.

sane.d tutorial

If you need to either find out what the current IP network address of your printer is, or to manually change it to suit your requirements. Luckily this very simple process can be achieved by following the instructions below.

Using the bizhub Control Panel –

At photocopier control panel select:

Menu Button

Mac Address Lookup

Utility ButtonDevice Information, where you will see the IPv4 IP network address.

If you wish to change the bizhub IP network address –

Then select OK to close the screen as described above.

Then choose –

Administrator Settings− enter the administrator password then click OK −

Network Settings

TCP/IP SettingsIPv4 Settings − (you will now see IP Address) Select Manal Input then Display Keyboard in the top left if numerical keyboard is not present. Using the arrow keys and delete key, input the required IP address.

When finished, press the OK button to save your changes and then Close.

Using a windows PC through the Print Driver

On the PC select:

Start button or windows key − Type ‘Devices' and the search results will take you to Devices & Printers

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Locate your bizhub printer and right click on the printer icon − Printer Properties Configure Tab − Then click the ‘Web Connection' Start button in the bottom right of the screen

This will load the bizhub Web Connection interface – Select To Login Screen then select Administrator – Key in the password and choose Login – Select the Network tab then TCP/IP Setting on the left.

Scroll down to IPv4 IP Address and key and make any necessary changes. Once finished simply select OK and then remember to choose Logout.

NB.

If you forget to logout from admin mode, on some models this will lock out the printer from user control. Do not panic, this web control session will automatically timeout after a couple of minutes.





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